Thursday, March 15, 2012

My Creative Space- The Dress


So this is the dress I made from that vintage pattern. I made a few alterations from the pattern. Firstly, I removed the pockets and belt. I doubled the height of the cowl neck and reduced the sleeve width. And finally, as I made it out of merino, I opted for a rolled hem. I have to say, I am really happy with how it turned out. A big thanks to Nin for all her advice on altering patterns and a big thanks to Hannah for taking this photo for me!

And in a slightly different creative space topic. I spent last night altering the layout and look of my blog. What do you reckon? Like it? Hate it? How does it work for you?


16 comments:

  1. Gorgeous dress, the drape is perfect and it looks amazing on you. Blog looks great too,

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  2. looks fab Lou! I must sew myself something similar for this winter!

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  3. It's gorgeous!! How clever you are, and you look lovely as a brunette..x

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  4. Gorgeous dress! It looks comfy and elegant at the same time. I noticed the different hair color before I noticed the different blog style ;-)

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  5. Love your dress. Will be great in merino. Well done. Cx

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  6. your dress looks really lovely :)

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  7. Gosh that turned out really well, you look so different with raven hair!! Will you consider linking it to Wardrobe Wednesday on Sailor Spy? http://sailorspy.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/so-sorry-this-was-set-to-automatically.html

    On the header/layout - fantastic, clean, elegant. Sometimes you just have to sit with these things a while, but I really am a fan of white space.

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  8. You look stunning!!
    I love the dress and your hair Lou.
    The new layout is great too -
    really easy to read.X

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  9. Beautiful dress! I love merino wool to wear. I wasn't familiar with your blog before today but I think it looks great.

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  10. You look gorgeous -
    The dress is amazing
    LOVE the new layout and the updated piccie of you !! !!

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  11. Woot!What a fantastic dress. You look amazing. x

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  12. Love the dress and the alterations you made to the pattern. Your version is much more chic and elegant! Its also fab that you made it out of merino wool - so gorgeous and warm for winter. Bravo! Becks x

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  13. You look stunning! Well done making such a gorgeous and flattering dress.

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  14. Fabulous dress, the style reallly suits you :)

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  15. what a great dress! it looks fabulous on you.

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  16. As we all agree that the dress looks great ... I come to your question ... I don't know what your blog looked like before I just "clicked" over from Deb's blog ... but I think the buttons or whatever you call them (Knit, Thrift, Home....) are really really faint, at least on my computer. Maybe you could grant them a tad more colour.

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